Thursday, December 19, 2013

My friend Helen gave me a box of painted pine cones when she moved knowing I could probably make something out of them instead of her throwing them out. The pinecones were painted gold and I had no idea what I would do with them until I saw a group of pinecone birds on the World Market site. Although for some reason the pine cones birds are not available online. How cute are they in all their glitter glory!﻿

World Market

I knew it would be easy creating my version of these lovelies. Here's how I did it:

1. Gather:

pine cones

Styrofoam balls

gold paint

glitter

mod podge

2 beads for eyes

earring back for nose (or anything you can use)

hot glue gun

glitter cardboard

two 18 gauge wire stems

2. Coat the Styrofoam balls (for head) with mod podge and sprinkle glitter over them. Once dry, seal glitter with more mod podge to prevent glitter from coming off. Hot glue eyes and nose to head.

3. Glue head to flat portion of pinecone.

4. Cut out four petal shapes for wings and four narrow petals for tails out of the glitter cardboard. Glue two blanks sides together for the wings (2) and do the same for tails (2).

5. Hot glue wings in place. Crisscross tails and glue near bottom back of pinecone.

wow great post thank you for sharing this.The pinecones were painted gold and I had no clue what I would do with them until I saw a gathering of pinecone flying creatures on the World Market site. In spite of the fact that for reasons unknown the pine cones winged creatures are not accessible on the web.